Historic music venues were hosting musicians playing every style of jazz, from Dixieland to Free Jazz.
Despite the band's boastful name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band wasn't quite as original as it claimed.
Another New Orleans dance band Tom Brown's Band From Dixieland had already had success playing there at local restaurants.
Jazz clubs jump with everything from traditional Dixieland to more experimental contemporary music.
Instead, a white band called the Original Dixieland Jass Band, led by LaRocca, recorded with the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1917.
He played harmonica and taught himself songs on a guitar, starting with "When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland, " a Carter Family favorite.
For the rest, older connoisseurs may only regret the absence of the smoky-voiced Lee Wiley, who created some effortless masterpieces with Eddie Condon's dixieland circle.
Ninety-five years ago, members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) boarded the freight elevator at 46 W. 38th St. and rode to the top floor.
He liked trad jazz -- aka Dixieland, the dominant style of dance music in Britain at the time -- until he discovered the saxophonist Charlie Parker.
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Kopple and her camera crew trailed Allen and his Dixieland jazz band as they toured through Europe in 1996, playing to mostly adoring audiences that (it has to be said) seem pretty primed to be adoring regardless of what the music sounds like.
"The Whole Love" seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place: "Capitol City" is a country waltz with bits of Dixieland clarinet, "Sunloathe" sounds like the Beatles if they were still together in 1974, and the vaguely psychedelic folk-pop title track takes Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge down to the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park for a summer-breezin' picnic.
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